awalgarg/netmonitor

A Chrome extension which shows background network activity of web pages after they are loaded.

netmonitor's Issues

Destroys google maps performance

maps.google.com becomes unusably slow when this plugin is enabled, particularly when trying to change zoom levels or pan in satellite view. I imagine it is also the case for any site that makes a larger burst of requests in a short period.

Counter keeps on updating on URL Change or Page Refresh

The counter keeps on increasing even if the page is refreshed or I visit a different site in the same tab. This should be changed since it easily provides wrong information after few visits to different websites on a single tab.

This can be achieved by maintaining an array of size 2. Once the URL is changed, check the URL of both the elements of the array, if it is same, increase counter, else reset it.

This should also help in cases of web applications like github which perform most of the things in a single page.

What say?

Icon clarity suggestion

This is a very nice plugin - excellent in fact!

One small thing: the visual difference between the icon states seem reversed to me. That is, the state for a "good" site is more noticeable (and appears more urgent) than the "bad" site one.

This seems to be due to the use of more red in the good state, and a slightly confusing icon which shows a network diagram (indicating something to do with a network of course). So I have to think twice each time I see the icon - and the use of the strong red colour draws my eye to it unnecessarily.

Perhaps the "good" state should not have a graphical icon at all and just a request count, while the bad one should have the red network diagram?

Other than that tiny niggle - it's perfect.